Officials have said the death toll may rise as there are also multiple injuries Credit: .

At least 12 people have been killed, and 39 others injured, after two separate car bombs went off in Baghdad today.

According to police sources security forces were the intended targets of the two bombs - one of which went off at a security checkpoint in
the northern al-Husseiniya district and the other of which hit an army convoy in Arab al-Jabour.

Officials told Reuters no immediate claim of responsibility for the
blasts has been made.

At least 26 people have reportedly been killed, and 71 others injured, in a suicide attack at a park outside Baghdad.

According to Reuters the security head in Babel province where the bomb, claimed by so-called Islamic State, went off confirmed an attacker
detonated an explosive belt in Iskandariya at around 7.15pm local time on Friday.

The blast, 25 miles south of the capital, went off at the end of an amateur soccer game.